Newspaper Page Text
it
***
$8=
—
VpLUME IX
Professional Cards.
Di\.T. F. WILLIAMS,
B^*OfHce at His Residence.ojgfl
Simms’ Building. First' door
below the Court House.
apr21.’86,ly.
Dr. J.P.HOLMES,
PRAcTITIOHER, ,
CONDOR, - - GEORGIA.
C ALLS' ATTENDED TO AT ALt
hours. Qbsterics a specialty. Office
Residence.
meh24, 7m.
Dr. T. A.
IFx-
all my own, I could woo and win th 9 sudden death of my poor broth
C 1ALL8 ATTENDED TO. AT ALL
J hours. Obsterics a specialty. Office
Residence.
mch24, tf. .
Dr. P. M. JOHNSON
PRACTITIONER,
Lovett. - .'x- Georgia.
C rtAILS ATTENDED TO AT
J houfs, Day and Night.
mcli85 tf.
light.
at
Dr. JT. L. LENDER,
[SIX MIL B NORTH OF DUBLIN.]
OFFERS his services to the public at
large. Calls promptly attended to, day or
uight. Office at residence. :l ,
aug 20, '84 ly.
CHARLES HICKS, M. D.,
PRACTITIONER. ,
Dublin, • Georgia.
je20, ly
DR.
G.
PRAO
Dublin,
a
—i.
DUBLIN.
GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 22. 1886.
NUMBER XIII.
THE LOST RECEIPT.
“BeROLD It JS OAST INTO THE FlRE
fob Fuel.”
My name is Arthur Maitland, and
office—I was a doctor—the sum of
one thousand dollars. I rejoiced in
every coin, iu every crumpled bank
note, in every bit of silver—not with
a miser’s greed, but with the satis
faction with which one acl lieveji am|
object. I was anxious to be rid of
it, too, for bv work and saving and
anxiety about money, foreign to my
nature, I had been able to pay off
the mortgage on my father’s old
homestead.
It had been left to, me mortgaged
down to its full value. This'was my
Jast payment. With this old place
Rose Baldwiu, whom I loved dearly;
&ftfrhere‘iiii$ nfdW'lbegan life anew*
The money was to be paid at the
old twin brothers, whom 1 never
knew apart, t}hd who had a reputa
tion of being hard and grasping,
which they merited. Ouly one of the.truth
***** in the 4 OT OTo-i io, t if,*
Co.” '
Robjii
is chair at
his desk. I fancied him the same
persbn I h
sent
He
to me
looked
to
“This has been
mistakp,” I said.
'it>-(] a
“No mistake,” he said.
“I paid the monoy,” I said. ,
“Then you have the papers
show/’ he replied. *"
“A ieccipt,” I said. “The other
papers* were to be sent me-*-by your
late brother, I presume.”
It had been a sort of joko that
did not kuow them apart. I did
not like to repeat it under the present
circumstances.
“Unbusinesa like,” ho said, “but
worse for myself by crying out:
Never had it! Never Had it! Why,
I see it now—every dollar—every bi
person I had spoken to ;a few days of silver! {(tee th* Receipt before
before. I placed thd’ legaf papbr my eyes—prbk, pale^ ||i|ik f signed>R.
before him. Grace,’ and abot'c; it; these words;
men should
iy nidst teirl
j u
is
er has.upset us. The
sufficient, of course. He made no
record!of the payment. , Perhaps he
office of the brother Gray—-mise'rly time permitted" him. Ybu
have the reoeipt.”
I had searched ma4.ly font all.Mle
morning. I was obliged to tell him
j , I . iioid uiiuam, VI i IU9K it)
ed; lie was talking to a lady, ahd j safff. “Are .you surp I did not pay,
. _
^ia^|hatrb^I|^k^r disappoin
’or my failure to tiring this mou
'would have thro\ynavaluable hip-
of property into the hands : fjm:
di m. The Grace Brothers held the,
mortgage themselves; and as
ed for him, I turned the leaves of a
wok that lay oh the. table near me.
lb proved to be a small bible, with a
piuk book-marker in it, kept there,
perhaps, to offer to people who were
called upon to lake an oath in regard
to any matter; peril
_ . the brothers.
Georgia.
. "'t ALLS o ATTENDED TO AT ALL
A^hours. Obstetrics a specialty. Office
Residence.
' T. L, CRINER,
ATTORiTEY & COUNSELLOR
AT LAW,.
Dublin - Georgia.
may 21 tf» ■ .
SANDERS
FELDER »
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Dublin,^ : ‘V Georgia.
Will practice in the courts of the Oco
nee, Oemulgee and Middle circuits, and
eme c
the Supreme court of Georgia. and else-
by special-contract.
where oy special-contract. >&i
Will negotiate loans on improved farm
ing lands. A \
Feb. 18th, 1885.-6m. . ..a.-Jhu
HAVE YOU TAKEN
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
FOR 1886?
If not. lay this paper down and send for
It right now,
If you want it every day, send for, the
Daily, which costs $10.00 a year! or $6.00
for six months or $2.50 for three months
If you want it every week, send .for $
Great Weekly, which costs $1,5
or $5,00 for Clubs pf Five.
tbs
ayear
THE WEEKLY CON
STITUTION
•If-., .) ,-*;.7// S
is the Cheapest!
Biggest and Best Paper
Printed in America!
It has 12 pages chock full of news, gos
sip and sketches every week. It prints
mere romance than the story papers, more
farm-news than the agricultural papers,
more fun than the humorous papeife—-be- *
sides all the neWs,'and ' \
Bill Arp's and Betsy Hamilton's
Letters, Uncle Remus’s Sketch
es!
—AND—
talmage;s sermons.
Css 2 Cents a Week/
t comes once week—tak^s- a whole week
o read itl
You can’t well farm or keep house wiffi-
out il! :*ib yai
Write your name on a postal card, ad-
mess it to us, and wc will send you Spoci-
r,:!i Copy Frkk!
d Address THE CONSTITUTOIN.
My whole plantation, containing
210 Acres of land one Dweliiug,
two tenament houses, and good Barn
and Stables, also good well of wator.
Terms tuj. Apply to
VV. T. Smith,
„ Dublin, Ga.
May 10, 80 If,
for pious
At all events, I glanced down the
columns, finding new beauties there,
US one always must, until ifiQijj _
bowed the old lady out and came to
mo. Ho-tiOkrtJrjtl.W.ej.lomonu.d
as was his usual way, the hard ti tnes
and finallyrgave memy receipt..
Then, as 1 was abbtf
chiHHiuiIv Atillnfl nut G, left
clothibg, jjy ; office f»«naure* f^jpy
ut “wa
ihftrWyl
ait,’
with
the
culled out
prospectus of a new company, in
which a desirabje .investment cduld
bo
uot'interest the much. Ihaduo de
sire forspeeulaiion. To. pgfc my
-little doctors sign on -the door of niy
lifljhse=^any'the woman-Ij^bved,
and strive to make money and fame
U “‘j 1 ^o^ssibh*jwhs my ambition.
I wanted the'tnoney to spend—not
to save^-to be haphy with. It was
sjgiple, hanpleg greed; not a mis-
” ,nidai A
j happy. The next
moruing'g: paper : brought me uncx-
pooled news.- Mr. B,clm-d Groee
had beep found dead m his chair m
offltos/oh tl^IirdHbiia afternoon.
I had never . known the brothers
apart, as I have said—and I asked
myself if the man I had spoken to,
conld have been so near death with-
“ nj : ^ ^ pi
cian? I felt in my pocket for the
receipt, to see if it woro Richard or
Robin Grace who had signed it. The
receipt was not there; it is never
pleasant thing to lose an important
paper. -jsKii'ui'".u*u*3e*i %*
I knew the Grace Brothers to be
far from worthy men. i had paid
the money without witnesses. My
receipt was all £ had to depend on.
The only consolation I bad was that
Um-1ou was not known by any one
jbut myself; and I waited for certain
legal papers which were to bo seiit to
me when drawn out. They did hot
come. I appreciated the fact that
th a sharp business man one can
not be too particular, when a notice
wap served on me, to the effect that
legal proceedings wou[d be taken, if
the money—oue thousand dollars—
W Ml
it to yoitlW'f
A twinkle in his pale blue eye
seomed/^o. be that whioh I had seen
ih the eye of Richard Grace whibli
he: handed me the prospectus. That
r *‘ _J safe enough iu my pocket
’T'Rotnu
suspicious glance.
to TO «!f
No, sjr,” he said, sternly. “No,
sir; yoin ’diil-uot. If you paid either
of us, you paid my pool hrotiier.
You viyiil do well to find that receipt*
We shall exp^t tltj.itrec^t. s ^ir,
You 1 aye : been moat uttbusinesstUke
at besi^^c^jDah I believe’ mv
brother so forgetful as not to coni
pleto the affair. We-, S li„ll_cl<mi W d
^H^qceipfetW'juj.:a ,riU)
He struck bis thin, 'little, blue-
hand^athetable^andijcmik •
v«s o
porifoliea',' thy ' ibooks. I had t)]e
ashes in the collar sifted, and re in-
i
lost paper, I picked the stijl warm
coals from my grate pun, hdpifig tO
find at least its searched remna>n be
neath them, bnrut my fingers, jump
ed up hastily, struck my head, y>o
lently. against.the mantel • piece, and
knew nothingthore fordays—lioiliihg
but the receipt, which danceci be/oiu
my eyqs in all its piiik cVispness, will
“Brollm-s Grace” at h» lt«J, ant
just over it these words: “Be,told,
it iaebaffinto the fire
As 1 grew better I began io wonder
why tpese words assoc u H ecl dlhem-
selves with tiie receipt.’ 1
• % attendant physician was the
father ; of the girl I loved. I spoke
to him of this.
lu You were fencing it was buiot
hen you struck yourself;” he said.
That explains it.”
“Don’t be sure of auythnig until
the
sirs.
you ai^B uomci, up oaiu. •{;
But I was sure. Mt' iyri* a clew
held out to me, I knew, but I ot^jd
.not giasp it; * ; ;■-* :>* T >- {. -ft i
I was told that Mr. Grace had boon
very considerate, but the; end dime
all th<j same. The mortgage was
foreclosed; the property- -my dear
old homestead-^was gone. There
had been an attempt to prove me a
ft^kster.' My betrothed fife’s fath
er, Dr. Baldwin, had savwl me from
that; bqt hoyr? He gave it as his
opinion that anxiety on the subject
had upset my mind; that my visit to
the office was a delusion of miue. I
painter was at workalteri
etters on tho window pane,
they should mad,-
no one into my confidence
as to mj small economies, my priva.
tions, the old job* of copying, e»o.,
ad bit by bit added to-iny little.
Dr. Baldwin gave it as his
that I only fancied that I
money. Only fancied that
i! And l had made matters
race/ anu above •fft;;|
’Behold, it is cast into tho fire for
fuel/ Y '
There are ti
be silent, if to
out their tougnes. I
No one thought mu an impostor.
No one thought me mad enough to
bo locked up; but I had been
“straiigo.” •••
Great Heaven! a blow against that
marble would have made any oue
strange for a while. My. patients
left me. I earned nothing. I grew
shabby. I lmd no kinsfolk,
would not appeal to friends. I al
most starved in tpe desolate office,
from whien I sold‘'everything by
slow degrees.
■1 'Fiually I left it. I conld have
had several good positions but for
the taint upon my name—Mad, mad,
It h f0^0wed me everywherer that
accusation un^ ,L was jjopt, hollow
cheeked, shabby. wretcho<(. Oiio
day, as I sat miserably in thO g'arret
^hichj kftph $s v sly}ltej, by, some
ooppying ^dwft iljjook’jpleii I week
old newspaper. At the head of the
column of marriages I saw these
words::
“On the —, Robin Grace, to
Rose, only'daughter of Dr. Escola
Pius Baldwin.”
* I had liot seeni the girl I loved for
mahy months, but she had then seetiif
ed true to me. I had cheHslied libp'e
Without knowing it. I qould not
believe It trite. Rose—my Rose—
ittaiTied t^JMy' eiierpyjla^oljd
mniirlop.wiihout ( u plinrin ubout
him. Gonldfhe be so;morconary?
I wrote tdifny THend. ^his was
“My J^ear Boy; It is
daughterhe
t der tlic dif-cii rridtadbes;
oh would,
I. am sure, be willing to give lier up.
: to time; and take good care df
yourself. 7 /f l ourf^ fi help yon, eoih4
Vo me without hesitation, Your
El B.
X tore the napor in two, and the
next morning took service a
mon sailor.
It* was a good step.
amendentBBIfr MV capmin w.is a
man of warm* heart and confidence
io his own opinion. I told him my
story ;jhe lw«s, i njdignmi t. T|ii-<»i;gh
his influence I became the physioian
fir the 1 ocean steamer p.ver whioh he
reigned.
^Whfhiyself phee thdre/ I
passed through the dark waters, but
1 was myself. And wo took .-many
voyages toge.her;and 1 wasa middle-
MS
the:passengers these namos, “Robiu
Gijieei Esq., lady and maid.” ;- J ;
“So I should aee 'them again;
should see her again. ^
They came.on board. She was
still pretty, but a trifle pinched and
and faded. Tie a skeleton of an. old
m^n. more like a Mexican mummy
than a hRiing
The maid was a prim-looking per
son. of middle-age. It was not an
attractive party. * vi no;
If that woman had loved me and
•een d ue to me> donbtiesathe changes
in ber.facb' would have touched me.
Asit was,/ think I. was glad to see
them. She blushed when she passed
nothing hut contempt for her. Old
RobmjGraoe had, I was told, been
ordered abroad for his health.
la mid-ocean, in the dead of
night, some one oarne to call me.
“Dootor,” said the messenger,
“that old Mr. Graco is trken very
bad.”
/hurried on my dollies.
The man was “bad,” indeed, as
we look at things. Ho wus dying.
I told his wife »o.
She gasped and turned faint,
“/ought to do something,” she
sighed, “What ought 7 do? Ho
<Wght to think of something else, if
teaoher of .|ior favprite pupil.
< “/ijun't explain whet it is, but
khow it all the sami^Y ' ’.?«
“Givejpe an example of hypoc-
v<; m
“When a/ellow says he loves his
Sunday sohool teaoher. That’s
hypocrisy,”- -Texas Su< lugs,
he’s going besides his money.”
“Read the Bible to hies, ma’am,”
id the maid.
‘Yes, yes,” gasped the frightened
man.
“/brought the littlo offico Bible,”
said the hiaid. “/t went beat int6
•mi portmanteau. I would’t bo at
sea without a Bible with a pink book
mirker. •
- As she handed it to the lady, it
slipped between their shaking hands
and fell to. the floor, s j r
/ stooped to pick it up. It had
jallen open.
A cross the page Tdy a piece of pink
paper, made to adhere by long pres
sure. /t lay direotly below the.
words of Ezekiel, ohap. xv., 4th
verso:
«: “Behold it is cast into the fire for
Tho devil is never as black as ho
is painted, and a woman is never, as
iunbeont as she appears. . di q :
If you want to koep a womans
love, keep up a slight but steady
flirtation with her must hated ri-
viil. t'irni fco-tid tl'u)4 Ja
When a woman gives you:her love
don’t lay it away on; ice . foi ; . safe
* -kcoping. • Btter keep it in the warm
est corner of your heart, so if she
calls for it any time yon can return
it in the condition she gave it to
you.
He Found the Place.
It happened yesterday. On Od6an'
street is u sign which sways in the '
And tho paper bore these words:
“Received from Arthur Maitland,
the anm of $1,000,” eto., etc.
It was the lest receipt. I had
placed it there in a fit of abstraction,
With ipy own bands; ( How wo come
to do such things, who cun tollP But
i. know now what my memory of
those words, “Behold, it is oast into
the fire for fuel,” meant, i hud read
them over the top of that reoeipt;
and had shut the cover on them
when Mr. Grace brought liie tlio
prospectus to look ut.
i remembered ull now. Too late—
too late—too late! Youth, lovoj'
amlitioh, htid bben '“oast into the
fire for fuel,” and were gone.~iltary
Kyle Wide, in AT. T. Ledger.
ft; j I. i ' ’ i 'M—i !
•‘Now, littlo boy, wha.t is the
meunihgof the word hypocrisy?!’
asked an Austin Sunday school
morning breeze and the sign reids;
“Woman’sExchange.” 1 * i<>\
Ho was a Duval ebunty farmer, *
and as he left the Bur bridge gro
cery store he looked up the street
and saw tho sign swinging m ^V ao ^ ci
usually does. - ; ! -o ••
Long aud earnestly did ho stare,
and with a 1 grttnt Tie” tuMdd «««!»
—.
mked:
•^kioP 9l}J lo o^boj
ngor
M
>di
Anjlnshman somewhat dlsgu<sed
in liquor was shouting ut Edinburgh,
“Three cheers for home rule.” whbro
upon a Sooi ohnmn, probably a sup
portor of Mr,. Gosoht-n, shot)ted
reply “Throe cheers for hrr-l.”
||||rpu are right,” said the Irish
man; “every man should stick up
for fits own oountry.”
in
There are haul times,” Buid tho
png debt collcoior. “Every place
wetit to to-day I was requested to
call ugaiu, but one, ahd Hmt was
when / dropped in to see. my, girl, ’
Whpt was that great racket/beard
in your WJpd-shod after you got bflUlU
from: fishing lust night?” asked one
Estelline small boy ot another.!
“/t was mo swinging tho buggy
Whip forp” the other replied. ^ ;
eoraotod J'
around, too?”
“On, that was pa seeing if he
oould Jump over the wash-boiler
I two tubs.”
‘Bht wbo was it
thhnderf* W-w. a 1
i* Why, every Jime
tra higli./ump he would holler kinder
n fun, you know.”
so
M
II8X-
mi' -
A
OU8.
Bailies and Parleys.
handsome woman , is danger-
A woman has neither love nor res-
;jeot for the man she oaii rule.
One bad woman esn keep u whole
neighboVhopd in hot water.
A woman who is not jealqm of
her husband is not in lovo with
nm.; ! *; • ; 1 .■ : ■ [ ;;' 43322^!
This world iu full of beautiful wo
men, but a truly good woman is a
rarity. ’.// |^r/T Y’j:
Two things always trained for ac
tion—a woman’s tongue and a mule’s
iceis.
Nino oasos out of ten when a wo
man says sho hates is in lovo with
Mat*-- *
Woman i* tho sweetest aud bitter-
e.it ^ift of Go-1 10 mull.
A woman will confess to almost
anything but to the fact that she i«
growing old aud ugly.
passer-by and re mu
“We i, sir, 1 have diskivered ifc, J
“-‘What?” asked
astonishnibiit.
“\Vliy, that ’ore place.”
. MWimt place?”
“That Woman’s Exciinn_„ . ..
“Weil^ wiiat about {!?” ) f u3
**■ Wlmt about it? Til bo gol darh-^
nd.if | don’t bring tho old 'woda'a^ 1 ,^ ,
right up tlmr and uwap her right
away. I hev been jest looking for
such a place, I toll ypu stranger *7 !
this ere town is jest whoopin’ thiugs
and don’t you forgot it, neither.” '
And then ho started up for the ex
change, but the stranger Btoppol
him. ; - , ” ■ . ‘ * *. . .
lit
iua
No one who has faith and isnaSlrn fliyiiG
Ting tb work for satisfactory results • Io
ban sum life up >ns a failure.
add effort have mude more ■-in a
than one man stieot eommiMionor or u
constable.
awre »r. ; people ItViriR » * ,
Bluo lvidgo, ot Bit con tn.loo obovo
Dahlonegu, G«., who never saw
negro! A , v<
A wonmn rcc.nlly .mvod in Wjfc
bind, Oregon, f,cm Montcm, wI,obo
entire wealth consisted of ton chil
dren, tho oldest 10 years old. Thero
wpsone sot of triplots, two sets of
.twins and throe “singleiB,” ,‘ s ' f , V ^
A. philosopher wen? thpt fhe rpa,-
son why ladies .teeth decay sooner , ;;il
than tho gentlemen’s is because pf .
the friction of the tongue .nd atvoflte
ne^Sjof thetrUpN-
i« fc l>pi01J
“I don’t
, t) A candid lawyer: v ‘ **Dp ydii
I’ll get justice done me?” “I
think you will,” repliod tho other;
“for i sbp two mbn on fche ! jnry who ,vut!
are opposed to hanging.”
A throe-year old girl discovered a
riCighhor’s hen soralching in the
garden, in a most indignant tone
she reported to, hert^mothor that the
hen next door was “wiping her feet
on our grass.”
ml
Someone Ima said that nothing
was lost by politonoka. How about
a seat in the street car.
Afi^r ; all, there are but few mo i
who can go into the loafing business
and make a success of
The beat way to make a name is to
have an him. ,* ■
Our belief or disbelief of a
does not altar the nature
thing. ? f emmi-HHyl mUi
thing
of a
httftp
ledi
need
A wise' man should have moucy
in hia head, and not in his heart.
For sixteen dollars J. M. Smith
will sell you a three ounce coin silvor
double case, Waltham or Elgin
wacth with a warrantee for five years.
Thoso watches are fine time-keepers
and are as good as any watch made.
TJijt order will only last thirty days.
Send in your order at once and get a
watch that will lust you youi lifo
time. ! »-iJ«tb' « l xi«w